Space News from SpaceDaily.Com brings the space industry professional daily news from the frontier, with contract, bid, launch and on-orbit satellite news as it happens. 10-FEB-10 en-us Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - The Solar Dynamics Observatory and its Atlas V rocket rolled out to the launch pad at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Tuesday morning move sets the stage for a liftoff Wednesday at 10:26 a.m. EST.]]> Moscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 - Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station (ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday.]]> Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 - Astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour on Tuesday finished routine inspection of the thermal protection system on the orbiter's wing leading edges and nose, NASA said.]]> Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Feb 10, 2010 - In a flight test reminiscent of the early days of the historic X-15 program 50 years earlier, the X-51A Waverider was carried aloft for the first time over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 9 by an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52H Stratofortress.]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2010 - Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.]]> Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 10, 2010 - A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite has been delivered to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for the February 12 launch.]]> Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission.]]> Arlington VA (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - A collaborative effort between Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA and academia resulted in the successful launch of a small rocket using a safe, environmentally friendly propellant.]]> Rome, Italy (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - Telespazio has renewed leases on two satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications for professional video contribution services and the outside broadcast purposes of RAI, the country's national public broadcaster. The renewal of this contract was announced in Rome on the occasion of the SATEXPO international conference and exhibition.]]> Essex FL (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - On February 9, 2010 six e2v Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors were launched into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the first of NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) programs to launch.]]> Germantown MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - Hughes Network Systems has announced the availability of the Hughes 9350 BGAN mobile satellite terminal, fully type-approved for operation over Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite service.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - NASA astronomers have demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Their work, reported in the journal Nature, provides a new tool for ground-based observatories, promising to accelerate by years the search for prebiotic, or life-related, molecules on planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system.]]> Nairobi (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 - A Dubai-based businessman who has signed up to be a space tourist said Tuesday he planned to fly the flags of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda on his out-of-world journey in honour of his childhood in Africa.]]>